Johannes Götz

Johannes Götz. Photograph by Wilhelm Fechner (around 1900)

Fighting Achilles , Achilleion, Corfu

Victorious Achilles , 1910

Johannes Gottfried Götz (born October 4, 1865 in Fürth ; † September 11, 1934 in Potsdam ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Johannes Götz, son of a carpenter in Fürth, attended the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts and went to Berlin in 1884 to study further as a student of Reinhold Begas at the Art Academy . With a Wasserschöpferin he won the Prix de Rome , which in 1892 him a nearly two-year study in Rome allowed. In 1893 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

The busy Götz enjoyed the special esteem of Kaiser Wilhelm II , who repeatedly awarded him orders. For example, in 1909 he created a gigantic male-heroic Fighting Achilles for the Achilleion in Corfu as a counterpart to Ernst Herter's dying Achilles , which Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary had acquired as the previous owner of the Achilleion, and who gave this summer palace its name.

Johannes Götz remained connected to his hometown Fürth throughout his life, where numerous works have been preserved, 13 tombs for dignitaries alone in the main cemetery in Fürth, plus his parents' grave with the sculpture The tired Wanderer . He himself last lived in Potsdam, where he was also buried in the Bornstedt cemetery .

Works

• Roman emperor statue and Theodor Mommsen memorial on the Saalburg
• Queen Luise Monument and Johannes Gutenberg Monument in Magdeburg
• Bust of Copernicus in Allenstein
• Hermann von Wissmann monument in Bad Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains

Works in Berlin:

• Water creator and balancing boy in the National Gallery Berlin
• northern quadriga of the Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument
• Monument group 19 for Siegesallee , 1900 (Elector Joachim-I.-Nestor - statue with assistant busts of Margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg (Archbishop of Mainz) and Dietrich von Bülow (Bishop of Lebus))
• Collaboration on the facade decoration of the Berlin Cathedral
• Collaboration on the Neptune Fountain by Reinhold Begas
• Bronze sculpture of a bear for the Moabiter Bridge (melted down in World War II)

Works in Fürth:

• Youth fountain in front of the fire station
• Relief of the Greek wrestlers in the stairwell of the Jahnturnhalle
• Statue "The Slave" in the foyer of the hospital
• Busts of Heinrich Berolzheimer , Alfred Nathan , Johann Humbser and Wilhelm Löhe on the church square

gallery

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  Hermann von Wissmann monument in Bad Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains

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  Siegesallee, group 19

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  Wilhelm Löhe bust on the church square in Fürth

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  Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument in Berlin, left the Quadriga (destroyed)

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  Statue of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius on the Saalburg

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  Tombstone of Johannes Götz in the Bornstedt cemetery

literature

• Theodor Hampe : Götz, Johannes . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 321 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Johannes Götz  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Johannes Götz in Berlin-Friedenau